Finding You - azngami (part 4)
Look awaaaaay I know I said part 4 would come by the end of the week. Yeah, this has been a whole new week but hehehehe here it is!
If you haven't read the last recent part (part 3), I'll put the link right here:
Hey my loves!! It's been a min, and I'd have to apologize for that! I think the main reason I haven't updated in a while is because I've bee
And if this is the first part you've stumbled on, please read part 1 first! It will help with context and everything :)) here's the link!
(part 1) Hey guys!!! This is my first fanfic on Ryan, it will be in parts. I'm a somewhat new, but like re-new star if that makes sense.
Thank y'all so much, happy reading! <3
Your number sat in Ryan's phone as he saved it immediately. It was just more of a struggle to now start the conversation. It was weird, it was fine to start the conversation with Diana, your younger sister, but right now he would be the one to initiate the conversation with you. It's been so long.
Ryan went back to Diana's story, with careful fingers, trying not to click heart or react or anything. You looked so different, but so beautiful. You were always beautiful in his eyes, but to see you again after so long of wondering...it made a lasting effect on him.
"Good morning," Justin's voice brought him out of his thinking. Ryan looked up and then closed his phone. He didn't want anyone catching him become the biggest simp.
"What's up?"
"Yo, are you tryna go to the breakfast cafe?"
Ryan blinked. "Pre workout?"
Usually what Ryan and Justin would do was to get a good workout in, and then grab breakfast when they all showered and were too exhausted to move.
Justin let out a yawn as he stood by the mirror of his room, running fingers through his hair.
"Yeah, I don't know. I'm feeling lazy today."
Ryan let out a small chuckle. "C'mon dude, we're just hitting back today."
"We can do it after, I promise. I just need like, a muffin or something, and then I'll be good to go. We don't even need to stay, just grab and go type sh't."
Ryan paused, letting out a sigh. Then he shot a look. "You paying?"
"Would that make you come with me?"
Ryan smiled. "Yeah!"
Justin rolled his eyes. "Okay, let's go."
...
"So, what's the latest updates on your mysterious whole foods girl? Darren told me that you slid into her sister's Dms?" Justin asked as they walked down the sidewalk.
He said it in a certain tone, and when Ryan looked at him, he was smiling. Ryan stared at him for a second before he gave him a hard push down the pavement.
"Yo! Chill! I could've broke something!" Justin yelled, causing a couple of people to stare at them.
"Why'd you say it like that?" Ryan interrogated.
"Say it like what?"
"Like I hit her sister's DMs in a weird way." Ryan argued.
Justin rolled his eyes as they reached his car. "Bro, you're so stupid. I didn't imply anything! That's on you for thinking something sus."
Ryan sighed as Justin started his car, and then opened the door to the passenger's seat. When they both got in the car and settled, Ryan's grabbed Justin's aux cord.
"Watch my aux boy you almost broke it!" Justin snapped.
"Shut up, I'm playing music!"
This bickering continued until Justin started driving. After a minute of silently listening to Keshi's latest album, Justin looked over at Ryan.
"So you're not gonna tell me the latest deets with that girl." He said.
Ryan froze. He thought Justin would have dropped the subject or forgot about it then. Ryan looked out his window, studying the clouds in the sky.
"What did Darren tell you?"
"All he said was that you texted her sister asking about her. Which, I'm mad at you actually cuz out of all the boys you would let Darren write your text?" Justin said, turning to look at Ryan.
Ryan shook his head. "It wasn't like that. Darren was in the room with me as I wrote it, but he didn't tell me what to say." He said.
"Oh really? That's not what Darren said."
"What, what did he say?" Ryan asked, now looking over at Justin.
Justin just shook his head as he watched the road, chuckling to himself.
"Nah, like...Darren gave me the idea to text her sister, but that was it. If he told you he wrote the text, he's a liar." Ryan said.
"Sure sure."
"On my mama I wrote the text!" Ryan defended, his voice starting to raise.
"Okay, fine, chill. What'd you say anyways?"
"Uh..." Ryan had his phone in his hands, but for some strange reason he didn't know if he wanted to share with Justin. It was kind of embarrassing for Ryan to show Justin this side of him. The soft boy simp side. Even though Justin wouldn't really do anything bad, and Ryan didn't write anything out of pocket, he didn't know how to bring it out without being embarrassed. He hated showing the guys this side when he was crushing on someone. He was all giddy and stuff. He hated it. It wasn't him.
Justin's eyes widened as he looked at Ryan when they came to a red light. "What did you write?!" He asked excitedly.
"I didn't write anything that you're thinking about, relax."
"Then why aren't you showing me?" Justin asked.
"Because it's my Dms, hello? I don't have to show you sh't. Relax." Ryan said.
"You definitely asked for nudes." Justin said with a smile.
"What the f'ck?!" Ryan yelled.
"Well if you're not showing me, then that means you have something to hide, it's nudes. What else would it be?" Justin said with a laid back smile. "Didn't know little bro had it in him."
"Oh my gosh." Ryan closed his eyes and groaned. He knew what Justin was doing. Justin wanted to aggravate Ryan so bad and push him to the point where he would reveal the texts. But he didn't want to do that.
"You're delusional." Ryan muttered as he turned and faced the window. "I'm not showing you sh't."
There was a silence for the rest of the song before Justin turned to Ryan.
"I have a question,"
Ryan clicked his teeth. "What?"
"Why are you texting her sister and not her?" He asked. When Justin asked, there was no certain smiles on his face, he genuinely wanted to know.
"She doesn't have social media."
"Ohhh, that's pretty valid. So, what you're just gonna text her sister and make her messenger or what?" Justin asked.
"Justin. I'm not dumb. I have her number." Ryan said, the sentence alone making his heart skip a beat for a second.
"Oh word?" Justin flashed a smile. "That's what's up!"
"Yeah it is. Her sister gave it to me, so..." Ryan said with a little smile himself.
"Are you guys talking a lot?"
Ryan took a deep breath. "Um...I actually didn't text her yet."
"What?!?!?"
"I will, I just-"
"Ryan, come on! Text your girl! What are you waiting for, her to make the first move? Even though she can't?" Justin laughed. "You're bad."
Ryan rolled his eyes. "I will text her, I just-"
"How long have you had her number saved in your phone?"
"This morning."
"Oh." Justin relaxed. "Well that's not bad."
"Yeah, see? She might be sleeping or something."
"We'll send her a good morning text, the f'ck? Girls like that sh't." Justin said, turning a corner. When they reached another red light, he looked at Ryan. "We are not going to step into the cafe, until you text her."
Ryan shook his head. "No."
"I will give you 100 dollars and a free breakfast, whatever you want on the menu, if you send her a good morning text." Justin said.
When they got to the parking lot, Justin locked the doors to the car right before Ryan got out. Ryan turned and looked at Justin who just looked at him.
"I'm so serious, Ry. If you want 100 dollars and free breakfast, text her right now." Justin said.
"Why the f'ck are you doing this to me, yo? You act nervous and dumb all the time you like a girl and I don't give you sh't." Ryan said.
"So do you want the deal or not?" Justin said. "I'm out here giving you a free breakfast, you never even think of doing sh't like this for me when I like someone. I'm being such a good friend right now. She might like you and fall in love, this could be your future wife right now and if it wasn't me pushing you to text her a good f'cking morning text, nothing would even happen." Justin said (or more like gaslit).
Ryan groaned out loud as he reached for his phone. Technically, this deal wasn't the worst thing in the world. Ryan could walk away from this deal with 100 dollars, a free breakfast, and a text back from you. But that made him nervous. If he was to set the bar, it would need to perfect. But what was the perfect start text? Sure, Justin said to text you good morning, but was that enough? Would it be too much? Too little?
Dang. Ryan was overthinking again.
He pulled open the recent saved contact under your name and went to type. He then stared at his phone for a few seconds, while Justin just waited in silence with the door still locked. He wasn't playing apparently. He was serious.
Ryan breathed out a sigh and ran fingers through his hair. It shouldn't be that difficult. He felt cowardly.
"Just text good morning, and say that you're Ryan, you got her number from her sister-" Justin started to say.
"Don't f'cking rush me. We're staying in the damn car for an hour if you rush me." Ryan scowled.
"Okay, chill."
Ryan knew that he was going to text something along those lines. He just didn't want to copy and paste from Justin. He could do it.
Ryan started typing.
good morning! it's ryan from high school...and whole foods lol
i hope you don't mind that diana gave me your number, thought it'd be easier to just text you!
hope you have a good day today :)
"Sent." Ryan said. He quickly turned his phone to Justin in a millisecond just for him to see that something was sent, but he quickly turned the phone away so Justin couldn't see what exactly Ryan said.
"Okayyyy, that's my boy, I knew you had it in you! Let's go." Justin said, unlocking the door.
"Are you not gonna send one hundred? Do that right now, and then we'll go." Ryan said.
Justin blinked and then took his phone. "Damn." He muttered. Ryan laughed.
As Ryan looked out the window, he smiled to himself. He felt kind of confident and grateful that he did that when he did. He was curious to what you'd say and when. He didn't want to be the guy that constantly checked his phone, and luckily he was busy enough to not be that guy usually, but you were dangerously on his mind. He could admit to himself that there were butterflies.
As he looked down the parking lot and the cafe, he thought of what he was trying to have. Should he order a big breakfast just to get on Justin's nerves? Nah, he'd probably settle for an açaí bowl or fruit bowl if they didn't have. He was going to have a good time enjoy something for free. The day was already starting to look good.
That was, until, he saw someone open the exit door from the cafe, going through her tote bag. Ryan recognized you immediately. Like Whole Foods, you were here. You were right here at the breakfast cafe.
"Oh sh't." Ryan said, suddenly feeling nervous. He hoped you didn't look this way, the car wasn't far from the entrance.
Was he dreaming right now? No, you did just appear the moment that he texted you. Right in front of him.
"Oh sh't!" Ryan repeated, this time his voice was rising.
"What?" Justin asked, as he tried to load cashapp.
"Justin, we gotta go."
That caused Justin to look up from his phone. "What do you mean we got to go? What're you talking about?"
Ryan looked down, hiding his face. "She's right there, coming out of the cafe."
"Who?" Justin asked, gullibly.
"Dude, who did I just text?" Ryan asked, giving him a side-eye.
"Are you serious?" Justin asked. Ryan didn't reply, he rested his head on his lap and covered it with his hands. He didn't want to be seen. Not right now.
"Yo, she's checking her phone, I think she's looking at what you texted her. She's smiling. I told you girls love when guys text them good morning! They love that sh't!" Justin shook Ryan excitedly.
Ryan wanted to see your reaction in real time, but he remained where he was. What if you saw him?
"Ryan! Get out of the car! Go talk to her!" Justin told him.
"Nah, bro, I can't!" Ryan said.
"Why the f'ck not?"
"Look at me! I'm wearing sweats and a t-shirt!"
"Oh my gosh." Justin started driving to the back of the parking lot where they wouldn't be seen. When the coast was clear, Ryan looked up. You were on the other side of the parking lot getting your stuff.
"You are so lucky I'm doing this. Can't believe you're backing down." Justin said in disbelief.
"Don't even talk, remember last week when I was trying to get you on facetime with that girl and you were like "no I look like a homeless person" and you refused? Yeah, that's what I thought. Dipsh't." Ryan said.
"Oh, I'm the dipsh't? Last I checked-"
"Wait, shut up, she texted."
Ryan glanced at his phone where he saw that there was a new text notification. When he looked ahead, you stopped right beside your car, having your phone in your hand. It was kind of cute, Ryan thought, that you had no idea that the guy you were texting back was just a few feet away. Even though, he wasn't trying to stalk you, he genuinely had no idea you were awake and at the breakfast cafe at this time.
Ryan looked down at his phone, seeing the new text. He hovered over so he could see the whole message, without having to open it so he left you on read.
Good morning Ryan! No that is totally okay I don't mind :) I was going to ask Diana for yours she just beat me to it lol
I hope you have a good day too! It's so cool talking to you again after all these years! :)
Ryan smiled.
"What did she say?" Justin leaned close to Ryan's seat. Ryan immediately backed away.
"Chill, yo!"
"I don't get why you're texting her when you could be talking to her face to face right now." Justin said.
"Yeah, how's the facetiming going?" Ryan snapped back.
When Justin didn't say anything, Ryan nodded. "What I thought."
Ryan looked down on his phone and gave it a few minutes. Just as he about to think of texting you back, he looked ahead and saw that you started going to your car. He didn't want to text you while you were driving, so he put his phone in his pocket, turning to Justin.
"Okay, we can go." He said, putting his hand on the door handle.
Justin shook his head, but didn't say anything.
"Did you send it?" Ryan asked.
"Send what?"
"The money!" Ryan said.
Justin snorted. "Why? You hid in the parking lot while your girl was right there! Nah, I'll send you 50 now, and then the next 50 when you can plan a meet up with her, so you guys can actually talk face-to-face."
Ryan gave Justin an aggressive slap. "That wasn't part of the deal, dummy!"
"Okay fine, fine!" Justin said as he got out his phone. "You didn't even talk to her."
"You told me you would give me 100 dollars and a free breakfast, that's on you if I didn't talk to her, that's your bet, that's not on me!" Ryan clarified.
About a minute later Than got the notification that Justin sent him 100. He smiled when realizing that a free breakfast was on the way.
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Thank you loves for readingg, I don't know how long part 5 will come, but I'll start working on it tonight! It'll be out soon <3












